Time to move on (to #133)...
Here is my log:
initial thoughts & blackclicking:
-moderately sized island
-some islands nearby within trireme's reach -> no LH needed (probably)
-OCC possible
-bronze as starting tech => direct path to monarchy available
-option: use forest for size1-settler, build road with other settler to city-site to get 3 early cities
-4000 move settlers > special under grass
-3950 Egypt is in
-3900 Persia is in: => Worst player has Persia as key-civ, NONE-Archer from hut, Leningrad (switch names since we're playing Lenin) founded at 105,103, start settler
-3850 Researching alphabet
-3350 Alphabet -> Burial
-3200 Home island uncovered, size1-settler built
-3150 Moskau founded at northern coast on 3-special-site
-3100 Kiev founded north of Leningrad
Stats at 3000:
pop: 30k, cities: 3 techs: 2
plan: settle island, get monarchy, expand to islands 12 & 27
-2800 Burial -> Laws
-2150 Laws -> Mon
-2000 Smolensk founded at western edge of continent
-1650 Monarchy (revolt & establ.) -> mapmaking
-1500 Smolensk destroyed by barb archer, wonder started in Leningrad
-1350 None-Archer in Moskau survives barb attack
-1050 Mapmak. -> Currency; Sevastopol, Tblisi founded
-1000 Sverdlovsk founded
-950 trireme sets sails, hut on cont. 12: Archer
-900 Barb trireme spottet
-850 Barb Archer on cont.12m, Yakutsk founded on cont. 12, Chariot from hut
-800 Curr. -> Trade
-775 Another Chariot from hut
-700 Vladivostok founded, riot factor is on now, chariot pops hut with 7 horses, kills one
(chariot lost)
-600 Trade -> Writing
-550 Egyptians start HG (both are doing Pyramids already, 115s in Leningrad MPE)
-525 Explore cont. 27, New Smolensk founded
-500 hut on 27: Barbs!! ouch
(Chariot lost)
-475 Barbs on 12
-450 Krasnoyarsk founded
(Thebes Pyramids)
-425 Riga founded
-375 MPE built in Leningrad > NO AI has writing; hail Egyptians, give trade, get pottery, peace, give monarchy, maps, demand tribute, war
Persians: give some techs, get myst., peace, maps
Sevastopol starts HG and gets 4 vans
-350 HG built (Egypt to GW), Hail Egypt, give Bronze, peace, maps, Persia doing Math
-300 Another ouch! Barb Archer kills Vladivostok's phalanx, warrior almost kills Archer
(Valdivostok razed -2g)
-250 Writing (right after Egypt had it) -> Literacy, Rostov founded
-200 Astrakhan founded (far into island 12)
-175 Wladiwostok replaced;
Some planning: distance Persepolis 63 steps from New Smolensk, 36 from Astrakhan, requiering 21/12 ships for chain, 13/8 with Magellan
Best SSC would be Moskau (2 whales, 1 fish, all grass covered), let AI build Colossus for trading, priority for Michelangelo
-150 Hail Persia, give writing, get poly (should allow philo next)
-25 Lit. -> Philo; Issus founded, send 2 vans on their long, long way
1 AD Cunaxa founded on cont. 27
Stats at 1 AD:
pop.: 650k; cities: 16; techs: 13, gov: Mon, gold: 42, Trade routes: 0D0F; cost/turn:0
units: 4 settler, 15 warriors, 2 phalanx, 1 Archer, 2 boats, 3 vans, 2 dip
wonders: MPE, HG
Egypt: Enthusiastic, peace, 6 cities, 11 techs, Pyramids
Persia: Enthusiastic, peace, 5 cities, 13 techs
20 Egypt colossus, Persia Math -> Astro
40 hut: HBR (could have gotten it from AI, at least no Barbs this time)
120 Cremona (27) founded, hut near Astrakhan: nomads
160 Omsk founded, gift curr. to Egypt
220 Philo -> Mono -> Republic, Capua founded (I was planning to turn cont. 27 to C-town-land anyway), hut: Archer
240 Oimjakon founded
260 Odessa builds Michelangelo's Chapel
280 first domestic offshore van: 40g; Perm, Tobolsk founded, Crusader from hut, raise lux to trigger celebrations in Odessa for next delivery
300 Wow, 36g...
320 more nomads from hut
340 NONE Archer in northern 12, nomad on c-island
360 Persian-egyptian war, Persia Astro and switch GW to Copernicus, no tech-trading
380 Persia about to finish Copernicus! Republic (establ.)->Wheel
So two turn before completing their Great Wall the Persians discover astronomy! They have been accumulating wonder shields in Susa for as long as I can tell (from LH to Colossus to GW) and they were trying for 17 turns to unravel the mysteries of the stars.
Without Copernicus and a decent SSC, there is no point in carrying on...